Biography & Autobiography
The Autobiography of a Thief
Read by Ben Adams
Hutchins Hapgood
I met the ex-pickpocket and burglar whose autobiography follows soon after his release from a third term in the penitentiary. For several we…
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 4
Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)
Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral …
A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln
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John George Nicolay
John G. Nicolay was Abraham Lincoln’s private White House secretary. With assistant secretary, John Hay, he wrote the two volume definitive …
The Life of Cicero, Vol. I
Read by Philippa
Anthony Trollope
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43BC) was an orator, statesman, philosopher and prolific correspondent, who rose as a ‘new man’ in Rome in the tu…
A Gold Hunter's Experience
Read by Sue Anderson
Chalkley J. Hambleton
"Early in the summer of 1860, I had an attack of gold fever. In Chicago, the conditions for such a malady were all favorable. Since t…
Great Inventors and Their Inventions
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Frank Puterbaugh Bachman
This book is about Great inventors and what they created. It has different stories like Alexander Bell, Wrights, Morse, Gutenberg, and Ediso…
Great Artists: Volume 1
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Jennie Ellis Keysor
Biographies of Raphael Santi, Murillo, Peter Paul Rubens, and Albrecht Durer. This is a wonderful tool for art study as there are references…
Letters of Mrs. Adams, the Wife of John Adams, Vol. 1
Read by Sue Anderson
Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams lived the American Revolution as the wife of one of its central figures--John Adams. Her family correspondence, published alon…
The Trail of the Hawk: a Comedy of the Seriousness of Life
Read by John W. Michaels
Sinclair Lewis
Trail of the Hawk, narrated by Mike Vendetti aka Miketheauctioneer, is Sinclair Lewis’ second novel published under his own name. It was not…
Around the World in Seventy-Two Days
Read by Mary Reagan
Nellie Bly
This is a true account by American woman journalist who, in 1889, set out to see whether she could beat the fictional journey in Jules Verne…
The Life of Anthony
Read by Matthew James Gray
Athanasius of Alexandria
Anthony (251-356CE) lived in Egypt, and became one of the fathers of Christian desert monasticism. When he was about 18 years old, and havin…
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 1
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Giorgio Vasari
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite delle più eccellen…
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Vol. 2
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Giacomo Casanova
Giacomo Casanova (April 2, 1725 in Venice – June 4, 1798, in Dux, Bohemia, now Duchcov, Czech Republic) was a famous Venetian adventurer, wr…
Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888
Read by Sue Anderson
Frances M. A. Roe
"There appeared from the bushes in front of me, and right in the path, two immense gray wolves . . . Rollo saw them and stopped instan…
Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave
Read by James K. White
Henry Bibb
Henry Walton Bibb was born a slave. His father was white although his identity was not positively known. Bibb was separated from his mother …
Queen Victoria
Read by R. S. Steinberg
Giles Lytton Strachey
Lytton Strachey’s first great success, and his most famous achievement, was "Eminent Victorians" (1918), a collection of four shor…
My School Days
Read by Cori Samuel
E. Nesbit
A short memoir about the author's school days, serialised in The Girl's Own Paper from October 1896 to September 1897. It includes stories a…
The Life of Saint Monica
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Frances Alice Forbes
This book is above all things the story of a mother. But it is also the story of a noble woman—a woman who was truly great, for the reason t…
Moral letters to Lucilius (Epistulae morales ad Lucilium)
Read by John Van Stan
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Seneca the Younger’s letters to his friend, Lucilius Junior, appear to have been written with a broad audience in mind. These letters introd…
Toussaint L’Ouverture: A Biography and Autobiography
Read by James K. White
John Relly Beard
François-Dominique Toussaint L’Ouverture (1743-1803) rose to fame in 1791 during the Haitian struggle for independence. In this revol…